Word: staphylococcus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mixture as before, but some of the salt was missing. Gone were the public snarls at some particular foe. the three-alarm shrillness, the staccato urgency, the distinctive touch of a man who once polished trifles until they sometimes seemed to gleam. The staphylococcus infection that felled him last fall-"Same one Elizabeth Taylor had." says Winchell. not without pride-hit the 64-year-old columnist hard: "I had a time of it for six weeks." Now in Los Angeles soaking up sun, he divides his time between the Ambassador Hotel and his office at the 20th Century-Fox studios...
Furlough Time. Fact is that Winchell himself is not sure. Felled early last fall by a severe staphylococcus infection of the jaw, Winchell, 63, dropped out of a half-hour TV news program in mid-October; the following month, faced with the threat of surgery when the infection did not respond well to antibiotic treatment, he stopped writing his column as well. Since then, his only work has been narrating The Untouchables, a cops-and-robbers TV show in which he is an off-screen voice, reading a prepared script...
...shorter than his right, and the resulting seesaw effect tended increasingly to bring the spasms back. By 1954 he was a cripple on crutches. He hobbled into New York's Hospital for Special Surgery. Doctors tried a delicate spinal fusion. It failed, and Kennedy contracted a near-fatal staphylococcus infection. Another operation four months later was successful, and novocain treatments broke the cycle of muscle spasms. The President still must wear a quarter-inch riser in the heel of his left shoes and sneakers, and a small brace to support his back muscles...
Ever since U.S. hospital authorities learned, to their horror, that dangerous, penicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus bacteria were floating merrily in supposedly sterile hospital corridors, no nook or cranny has escaped attention from sanitation experts. Faulty air-conditioning systems, surgical masks, dirty mopheads and bedside water carafes have been implicated as germ carriers. In a speech to last week's American Public Health Association conference in San Francisco, Dr. Howard E. Lind of Brookline, Mass. proposed another target for bug hunters: the pillows on patients' beds...
...elder Grueninger said the Medical Center originally diagnosed his son's case as ordinary pneumonia and sent him home. his son returned to the Center one or two days later," according to Mr. Grueninger, he was admitted to the Bent Brigham Hospital, and the diagnosis was changed to staphylococcus...